SDLC 113 Bi-weekly Journal #2 and Evaluation of Artifact #1

[Joora Baek]

• Bi-weekly Journal #2: I learned how to write and read the New and Old Testaments of the Bible in Turkish. My language partner, Gokhan helped me to read and write them. We used two different applications on our phones, which were called Bible, and the Bible (in Turkish). For the first application, I changed the setting in Turkish on it. For the second one, it was already in Turkish so that I did not have to change it, which I found more helpful. We compared and contrasted the names of the books in the Bible in English, Turkish, and Korean, which is my mother tongue. I found the Turkish version of the name is really similar to that of Korean. I think that it is because Korean language has a larger range of words pronunciation. That similarity allowed me to remember the words better. While I was reading the words out loud, I worked on the accent of the words (which vowel I need to put a stress on). I figured out that counting is really unique in the Turkish writing. For example, "The first" Corinthians is "1. Korintliler" in Turkish, which the period differentiate "the first" from "number 1". I found this learning activity really fun because it was tied into my interest. 
• In your learning journal, post an evaluation of your First Artifact conversation.  Evaluate your artifact for accent, cultural appropriateness, and linguistic accuracy.
  • What did you do well? I did well making the conversation sound like a dialogue. I did a good job on reading a long conversation of the phone call. 
  • What do you need to improve? I need to improve with the accents and need to cut the time short. I took more than 3 minutes to read the whole passage. I think it wasn't too bad, but I could have improved if I tried to practice few more times before I recorded. 
  • How do you plan to make the necessary improvements? I will check the words that I circled on the transcript (I circled them after listening to my recording) with my language partner so that he can give me some feedbacks. I will keep reading the passage aloud. I will keep working on reading aloud with other texts.